Son of Stephen Ashby and Susannah Foote.
KILLED BY POTTAWATTOMIE INDIANS
In 1778 the decision was made to move and settle in Western Virginia in that part referred to as Kentucky. They would be joining others of the Ashby family already in Kentucky, including an uncle also named Stephen. Like many before them they would build rafts and float down the Ohio River to the "Falls of Louisville" thence overland to what is now Shelby or Nelson County, Kentucky. In the early part of 1789 Stephen with his family, a wife and eight children started on their journey to a new life on the frontiers of what was then Western Virginia. There was Stephen and Susannah, Miles about nineteen, Obediah called Beady, Robert, Thomas, John, David about four or five years old, Tinsen, and two girls, Mary and Sarah. The count might not be accurate as there was an infant mentioned in one of the accounts of the adventure that cannot be named.
In 1789, the family encountering a band of marauding Pottawattomie Indians, in the short fight that followed oldest son Miles, died with four arrows to his back and chest. He had fought valiantly but was no match for the attackers. Mrs. Ashby secretly communicated to her husband Stephen that the Indians intended to kill him by burning him. He was urged to leave the family and make an almost hopeless attempt to escape.
KILLED BY POTTAWATTOMIE INDIANS
In 1778 the decision was made to move and settle in Western Virginia in that part referred to as Kentucky. They would be joining others of the Ashby family already in Kentucky, including an uncle also named Stephen. Like many before them they would build rafts and float down the Ohio River to the "Falls of Louisville" thence overland to what is now Shelby or Nelson County, Kentucky. In the early part of 1789 Stephen with his family, a wife and eight children started on their journey to a new life on the frontiers of what was then Western Virginia. There was Stephen and Susannah, Miles about nineteen, Obediah called Beady, Robert, Thomas, John, David about four or five years old, Tinsen, and two girls, Mary and Sarah. The count might not be accurate as there was an infant mentioned in one of the accounts of the adventure that cannot be named.
In 1789, the family encountering a band of marauding Pottawattomie Indians, in the short fight that followed oldest son Miles, died with four arrows to his back and chest. He had fought valiantly but was no match for the attackers. Mrs. Ashby secretly communicated to her husband Stephen that the Indians intended to kill him by burning him. He was urged to leave the family and make an almost hopeless attempt to escape.
Son of Stephen Ashby and Susannah Foote.
KILLED BY POTTAWATTOMIE INDIANS
In 1778 the decision was made to move and settle in Western Virginia in that part referred to as Kentucky. They would be joining others of the Ashby family already in Kentucky, including an uncle also named Stephen. Like many before them they would build rafts and float down the Ohio River to the "Falls of Louisville" thence overland to what is now Shelby or Nelson County, Kentucky. In the early part of 1789 Stephen with his family, a wife and eight children started on their journey to a new life on the frontiers of what was then Western Virginia. There was Stephen and Susannah, Miles about nineteen, Obediah called Beady, Robert, Thomas, John, David about four or five years old, Tinsen, and two girls, Mary and Sarah. The count might not be accurate as there was an infant mentioned in one of the accounts of the adventure that cannot be named.
In 1789, the family encountering a band of marauding Pottawattomie Indians, in the short fight that followed oldest son Miles, died with four arrows to his back and chest. He had fought valiantly but was no match for the attackers. Mrs. Ashby secretly communicated to her husband Stephen that the Indians intended to kill him by burning him. He was urged to leave the family and make an almost hopeless attempt to escape.
KILLED BY POTTAWATTOMIE INDIANS
In 1778 the decision was made to move and settle in Western Virginia in that part referred to as Kentucky. They would be joining others of the Ashby family already in Kentucky, including an uncle also named Stephen. Like many before them they would build rafts and float down the Ohio River to the "Falls of Louisville" thence overland to what is now Shelby or Nelson County, Kentucky. In the early part of 1789 Stephen with his family, a wife and eight children started on their journey to a new life on the frontiers of what was then Western Virginia. There was Stephen and Susannah, Miles about nineteen, Obediah called Beady, Robert, Thomas, John, David about four or five years old, Tinsen, and two girls, Mary and Sarah. The count might not be accurate as there was an infant mentioned in one of the accounts of the adventure that cannot be named.
In 1789, the family encountering a band of marauding Pottawattomie Indians, in the short fight that followed oldest son Miles, died with four arrows to his back and chest. He had fought valiantly but was no match for the attackers. Mrs. Ashby secretly communicated to her husband Stephen that the Indians intended to kill him by burning him. He was urged to leave the family and make an almost hopeless attempt to escape.
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